Pocket-book



(No Model.)

J. PRONTEZAKf POCKET BOOK.

$10,505,040: Patented Sept. 12, 1893.

UNIT D STATES f PATENT OFFICEE JOSEPH FRONTEZAK, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA.

POCKET-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,010, dated September 12, 1893.

Application filed April 15, 1893.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH FRONTEZAK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket-Books; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. .7

My invention relates to pocket books, and it consists in combining with a pocket book of ordinary construction a coin compartment and means for manipulating the same, the entrance to said compartment being concealed and difficult of access by reason of its peculiar construction, but, upon proper manipulation, the compartment can be entered and a coin inserted or extracted, as will be hereinafter set forth. The coin compartment does not in the least interfere with the operation or usefulness of the other parts of the pocket to the coin compartment exposed by being drawn out; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section in the line w-m of Fig. 2 as it appears when the entrance to the coin compartment is exposed to view as in Fig. 2.

A in the drawings represents a folding pocket book formed of three sections B, C and D. p The section B is provided with a receptacle for bills or other papers, and with a clasp b for securing the same. The section 0 is formed with a suitable pocket 0, and the section D is constructed to form a closed spaced portion cl.

E, E, E represent pockets for coins which are open at top but appear, when the pocket book is in its normal position, as shown in Fig. 1, to be entirely closed.

F represents an extensible cover provided with long slits f which cover closes the mouths of the sockets E, E, E and extends backward into and is secured in the spaced portion at at d, as shown in Fig. 3, and is formed with a Serial N0- 4=70,566. (No model.)

flapf which serves as a hand hold for drawing the slitted cover outward in the direction of the arrow as shown in Fig. 2. forms part of or is attached to the spaced portion (1. The pocket E is attached to the flap f of the extensible cover F and the pocket E to the pockets E and E as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The inner end of the spaced portion is closed by long tight stitches, said stitches passing through both walls of the inclosed spaced portion at and through the slits f in the extensible cover F, by which means the fingers are prevented from being inserted into the spaced portion along the line yy for the purpose of getting access to the slits in the extensible cover and at the same time the cover is not prevented frombeing drawn outward to the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3, when properly manipulated. The stitches are not injured as the strips in the cover, formed by the slits, are simply drawn. between the stitches which are made of a length to permit the same.

G is a flap which is secured on the inside lower edge of the spaced compartment between said compartment and the coin pockets and gives to said compartment the appearance of being a pocketwitha flap, but a more important object of this flap is to. serve as a hand hold to be grasped by the left hand of the person desiring to obtain access to the seemingly closed pockets E E, E while with his right hand he draws on the flap f of the slitted cover F in the direction of the arrow, by which means the said slitted cover is drawn outward to the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3 until the slits are exposed to View and come directly over the upper open months of the pockets E, E, E so that a coin can be readily slipped through any one of the slits into any one of the pockets, and in like mannera coin can be taken out; and by taking hold of the lower end of the pockets with the right hand and the outer end of the spaced compartment with the left hand, when the pocket book is in the condition shown in Fig. 3, and drawing outward, the slitted cover will be drawn back into the spaced compartment until it is concealed from view as in Fig. 1. The sections A, B, O, of the pocket book can be folded inward upon each other to give'the appearance of an ordinary closed pocketbook,

The pocket E and the strap a secured around the same to hold it closed.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. A pocket book provided with a pocket as E the entrance to which is concealed, a closed, spaced compartment b and a slitted, slldlng cover F which extends into and is socured at its lower end in said spaced closed compartment, and also extended over the mouth of said pocket and provided at its outer end with a hand hold f for drawing said slitted cover outward, the construction and arrangement being such that when the pocket book isin its normal closed condition, the slits in the cover over the mouth of the pocket will be concealed but by drawing the cover outward will expose said slits and afford a means of access to the pocket for insorting or removing a coin, substantially as described.

2. A folding pocket book provided with ordinary accessible pockets and coin pockets as E, the entrance to which latter is concealed, a spaced, closed compartment b, a slitted, sliding cover F which extends into and is secured at its lower end in the spaced compartment and also extended over the mouth of said coin pockets and provided at its outer end with a hand hold for drawing the cover outward and exposing to View the slits in the same, stitches passed through the inner or upper end of the spaced compartment, said stitches also passing through the slits in the extensible cover, which permit the cover to be drawn outward but prevent the insertion of the fingers into the spaced compartment, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH FRONTEZAK- Witnesses:

O. O. BALDWIN, O. WELLS MILLER. 

